Every year, I teach hundreds of sellers how to sell IBM storage products. I have been doing this since the late 1990s, and it is one task that has carried forward from one job to another as I transitioned through various roles from development, to marketing,...

With all the announcements we had in June, it is easy for some of the more subtle enhancements to get overlooked. While I was at Orlando for the IBM Edge conference, I was able to blog about some of the key featured announcements. Then, later, when I got...

Well, it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means... IBM announcements!
Last week, IBM had a big storage launch of various products, with the June 4 announcements at the IBM Edge 2012 conference. I provided highlights in my post [ IBM Edge...

This week I am in Orlando, Florida for the IBM Edge conference. This is the last day, so it ends early for people who want to get home to their datacenters (er.. families) for the weekend. How Real-Time Compression Can Maximize Storage Efficiency for...

This week I am in Orlando, Florida for the IBM Edge conference. Thursday evening after all the other sessions, we had a Free-for-All, a Q&A panel across all storage topics, moderated by Scott Drummond. The conference officially ends at noon tomorrow, but...

Norm Bogard, IBM Technical Sales Specialist, explains that network attached storage (NAS) used for unstructured data has often been tied to a particular storage device, a limitation that inhibits your ability to move data from one disk to another. But with...

This week, I am in Orlando, Florida presenting, blogging and tweeting at the IBM Edge conference. The first day began with opening main tent sessions. Deon Newman, IBM VP of Marketing, was the emcee. The four-person [ Bella Electric Strings ] rocked the...

There is still time to enroll for [ IBM Edge ], a conference focused on storage, to be held June 4-8 in Orlando, Florida. There is an early-bird discount until May 6! I will be there all week! Here are the seven sessions I will be presenting at the Technical...

Upgrading the IBM Storwize V7000 is an easy procedure without interruption as the storage architecture provides 2 nodes, and upgrade runs on one node before shutting down and upgrading the other node. This upgrade operation will take approximately 30 minutes....

At the end of the Superbowl, people created 12,233 tweets per second. And it turns out that was less than half the
number of tweets created in Japan
on December 9 th , when 25,088 tweets per second were recorded about
the Castle in the Sky anime movie....

Last week, on January 31, two of my colleagues retired from IBM. At IBM, retirements always happen on the last day of the month. Here is my memories of each, listed alphabetically by last name.
Mark Doumas Mark Doumas retires after working 32 years with...

This week I was aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California! This was a business event organized by [ Key Info Systems ], a valued IBM Business Partner. Key Info resells IBM servers, storage and switches.
The Queen Mary retired in 1967, and has been...

Continuing my coverage of the 30th annual [ Data Center Conference ]. Here is a recap of the Tuesday morning sessions:
Wells Fargo: Data Center Lessons Learned from the Wachovia Acquisition This was the next in their "Mastermind Interview" series. The...

Continuing my coverage of the 30th annual [ Data Center Conference ]. Here is a recap of the Monday afternoon sessions:
IBM Watson and your Data Center Steve Sams, IBM VP of Site and Facilities Services, cleverly used IBM Watson as a way to explain how...

Continuing my coverage of the [ IBM System x and System Storage Technical Symposium ], I thought I would start with some photos. I took these with cell phone, and without realizing how much it would cost, uploaded them to Flickr at international data roaming...

This week, I will be in Auckland, New Zealand for the [ IBM System x and System Storage Technical Symposium ]. This is a three-day event, with 35 unique sessions and labs. The agenda is organized with a keynote session in the beginning, followed by 12 time...

Here are upcoming conferences I will be presenting at for November 2011.
Next week, I will be in Auckland, New Zealand for the [ IBM System x and System Storage Technical Symposium ], similar to the one I attended in Orlando, Florida last July. Here are the...